So that Air America radio "network" with Al Franken and his shortsightedly titled "The O'Franken Factor" debuts today.

A year ago when the idea was first proposed, Harry Shearer recorded "The Gore Room" an imagined liberal talk show with Al Gore as host and Al Franken as sidekick.

Harry Shearer's recorded skits exhibit a level of technical wizardry that's always interesting even if the bit isn't all that funny. In this case, "The Gore Room" is almost too realistic to be funny, but it manages. If you'd like, you can listen to it now.

Oh, and also click on Buddy Guy over there -->
Did you click on him? He'll sing to you...

I didn't know a person could make a career out of this. "No man can eat 100 eggs."--Name that movie!

Now I'm reminded of this phenomenon, which is probably the next logical step for Southside Andy

Blue Sky On Mars

This just in. There's life on Mars. Maybe.

Waking Life

What was I going to say? I don't remember.
Don't look at this. It creeps me the hell out.

I was asleep not very long ago and in the course of that sleep I dreamed I was at work. That work day ended and was immediately followed by another. I never went home because the next work day suddenly just happened. At one point in the dream I thought, "I'm tired." The remedy for this seemed to be to get to bed, but of course, I was already in bed. So, the best remedy available was to wake up. And so here I am now, awake for over an hour already--not feeling tired at all. But in a few hours, consciousness will be a struggle.

And well, I see that Benton County Oregon has finally resolved the gay marriage issue.

I know a guy who is selling an '82 Ford Mustang (engine rebuilt--all new parts) for $900 and he suggested that I make this fact generally known to people.

Also, I have Ayman Al-Zawahiri surrounded. Wait, no I don't. But, maybe if I acquired some advanced weaponry I could capture him...

And I happened to catch this 60 minutes interview and it occurred to me that if the Admin. had really been on top of the terrorism issue and been able to prevent 9/11, terrorism would not be a major campaign issue now. Without 9/11, which paved the way for the Iraq war, what would GW's re-election campaign focus be? (This is just an observation, it doesn't lead to any conclusion.)

Today is the vernal equinox.
It's also my Mom's Birthday.


So, Happy Birthday.

Love and Basketball

The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is my favorite sporting event, especially the first two rounds. It's better than the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Olympics. I love the upsets, the close calls, the unsung heroes and the rising stars. It's fun to discover players with crazy hair, like Wesley Stokes (see below), or great names, like God Shammgod.

I don't think I've watched a single college basketball game in its entirety this year, and yet my excitement is not in the least diminished.
However, I won't be able to see any of the games today. As a matter of fact I'm not watching basketball right now, which allowed me the opportunity to fill out my brackets. My brackets are truly inspired. Of course they're completely wrong, but nevertheless inspired.

So who's in your Final Four?
And what are you not doing right now?


Wesley Stokes

Election

With 98% of precincts reporting, Barack Obama had more votes than all of the Republican candidates for senate combined. So, let's give it up for his wife!

Blair Hull spent about $30 million for about 130,000 votes.
That's $230 per vote.

...And so ends his Citizen Kane fantasy.
Next time, Blair, just give me a couple hundred bucks; I'll vote for ya.

You'll notice that Barack Obama started to gain in the polls shortly after receiving the endorsement of alpha charlie bravo.

Find some time to go to the polls today, if you haven't already. Vote twice for me in case I don't make it.

Speaking of which, read My Hell in Camp X-Ray
There's a fine line between terrorist and tourist.
I want dibs on movie rights. Holla?

This is the story of one of the world's unluckiest petty criminals.

Wouldn't it be great if this actually happened? It would make life so much more interesting. Kerry and McCain. They'd be like Ferdinand and Isabella. Although Ferdinand did run the country into the ground after Isabella died. Oh well.

Do It Yourself:

This is CIA director George Tenet:



He's testifying before Congress.
What would you say he was thinking when this picture was taken?

You may, as I do, find GW's verbal gaffes to be amusing, but our President is not nearly as interesting as Italy's Prime Minister.

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

Strange Weather

Well, it was rather warm this weekend. I hope you didn't feel the need to shoot anyone.

I had been thinking about this problem of outsourcing and the only solution I can think of that will create new jobs, is to create new technologies. This article by Robert X. Cringely propses how that could be accomplished.

But then again, maybe none of that matters because the world will be plunged into anarchy by 2020:
"Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us"